Black Political Thought - AAIHS

Mapping Resistance to Surveillance

March 29, 2019August 12, 2022 Dan Berger carceral state, mass incarceration

As pundits await the release of the full Mueller Report and speculate about its final contents, the FBI enjoys greater

The Roots of Antiblackness in the US and Brazil

March 28, 2019August 12, 2022 Kwame Holmes black feminism, black politics, black protest, Brazil, police brutality, police violence, Politics, Racial Violence, racism

At its core The Denial of Antiblackness: Multiracial Redemption & Black Suffering by João Vargas proposes an intriguing methodological question: Is

‘The Drum Major Instinct’: A New Book about Martin Luther King, Jr.

March 25, 2019August 12, 2022 J. T. Roane Activism, black intellectual history, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

Remembering John O’Neal and the Free Southern Theater

March 25, 2019August 12, 2022 Erik Wallenberg Activism, black intellectual history, black politics, Resistance, theater

John O’Neal, the co-founder of the Free Southern Theater (FST)–one of the cultural arms of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)–has

The Rich Legacy of African American Political and Intellectual History

March 19, 2019March 31, 2019 Robert Greene II black intellectual history, black internationalism, black lives matter, Black political thought, Black women, book review

In 1962, the magazine Negro Digest published a blistering critique of African American intellectuals by the sociologist E. Franklin Frazier. Titled, “The